You picked your apartment now what?

In my last post I talked about how we sent the application and got approved by the landlord. Now what?

We received the contract. We had to translate it, sign it, get it back to the agency along with their fee. The contract was very basic and to the point. Even though we have to wait seven months to move in, we still need to send the deposit and first months rent to secure the apartment.

Here is my Public Service Announcement on wiring money Internationally. I checked with Chase, our bank, on how much the service fee was to wire money. It's $50.00 to come in and do it at the bank and $40.00 if you do it online. We choose to do it online and save the ten bucks. First one was easy money was transferred all was good. Two days later, we tried transfer the deposit and first months rent. Well at first it was easy. About an hour after our transfer we get a voicemail from Chase saying please call us back. I tried to sign into our online account and we were locked out. Our accounts were frozen. My husband called and got interrogated by the bank on why were are sending money. Why would be pay the realtor fee and then the deposit. Have we seen the apartment. On and on and on. I get they are looking out for us, but one of the options you click is they are not responsible for us sending money. Then they want to know if we will continue to transfer money to that bank account and for how long. Well we have other accounts in three different banks, so I think when we send the rent money we will use another bank.

The last thing we need to do is finalize our renters insurance. We've sent in the paperwork and received a quote. Now we are waiting for the insurance company to finalize the paperwork.

Au revoir